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Wellness Wet Cat Food Recall

Posted in Uncategorized | December 16th, 2010

What wet cat foods were not involved in the Pet Food Recall?

I have been feeding Wellness my cats don’t like most of the flavors anymore. Two cats like the chicken flavor. I have six.

The main purpose for the wet food is to mix medication with. 4 of the six take medicine and I can’t leave out the the other two. They beat up on the other cats if I exclude them.

I have a diabetic cat who hates the veterinary food. I have reluctantly had to feed him Fancy Feast flavors the are gluten free. I’ll keep feeding him that but I need alternatives for my other cats. It’s too costly to feed six cats those tiny cans of Fancy Feast. I want bigger cans for the rest. They eat Wellness Core dry for the main part of their diet.

Why feed dry? Wet is healthier. The reason is, in the wild, cats normally get most of their water content directly from their prey items and drink very little. Domestic cats are no different, and because of the fact that they are designed to take in water with their meal, they have a very low thirst drive. Cats often just don’t drink enough. This leads to urinary tract infections and crystals. The bit about dry food being better for teeth is a myth and has not been proven in the least (cats barely even chew their dry food and, really, does a pretzel clean /your/ teeth? Cats should have their teeth brushed with cat toothbrushes and cat toothpaste at least a few times a week as well as see the vet for dental cleanings when necessary /regardless/ of what they are being fed). Canned/wet food is better because it more closely mimics the cat’s natural diet. More on why canned food is best:
http://www.catinfo.org/ (Excellent cat nutrition information by a vet)

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canned_food.htm

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?action=library&act=show&item=whycatsneedcannedfood

http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bpo_ch4.php

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm

Another option to get cats to drink more would be a cat fountain. Cats tend to like to drink from running water and cat fountains see to that need, encouraging cats to take in more water.

The veterinary food is crap anyway (as is Fancy Feast), I wouldn’t feed either to your diabetic cat. Dry food is one of the biggest culprits when it comes to diabetes in cats due to the amount of carbohydrates in it: http://www.catinfo.org/felinediabetes.htm

As for other high quality foods that weren’t part of the recalls, Innova is a good one. Wellness CORE is a great grain-free food, and Innova puts one out as well (Innova’s is actually even better) called Innova EVO. Other high quality, grain-free foods that I believe were not involved in the recalls would be Orijen, Nature’s Variety Instinct, Merrick Before Grain, Fromm Surf & Turf, Horizon Legacy, and Solid Gold Indigo Moon.

Darksong~

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